Bob Weber

Current

Managing Director at Patent Kinetics, LLC
Blogger at ManagingRights.com
Managing Director at Strategy Kinetics, LLC

Past

Vice President, BizDev (Part Time) at Open Security Solutions, LLC
SVP, Corporate & Market Development at Evergreen Open Broadband
SVP, Business & Technology Strategy at InterTrust

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Education

The University of Connecticut

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Industry

Management Consulting

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Bob Weber’s Summary

Robert Weber is a successful intellectual property professional, inventor, serial entrepreneur, management consultant, and senior executive, He is Managing Director, Patent Kinetics, LLC, a company that helps inventors and small companies get a financial return on their substantial investments of time and money in high quality patent portfolios.

Previously In his role as Vice President, Corporate Development and Licensing (part time), Open Security Solutions, LLC, Mr. Weber was instrumental in licensing a patent portfolio relating to information security to a well-known patent licensing and assertion company and in obtaining a resolution of patent litigation that had been pending in the Eastern District of Texas. In 2009, this litigation has been resolved in favor of OSS and its partner company.

Earlier, Weber was Co-founder and SVP, Corporate & Market Development at Evergreen Open Broadband, a wireless Internet services startup acquired in June, 2005.

Weber was also SVP Business and Technology Strategy, InterTrust Technologies Corporation, where he made significant contributions to the company's intellectual property portfolio that was licensed to Microsoft for nearly a hall billion dollars.

Weber has also been a Principal at Northeast Consulting Resources, Inc. (NCRI, prior to its acquisition by NerveWire). At NCRI, his consulting practice focused on the intersection of business and information technology strategy with a particular emphasis on Information Commerce, the copyright industries, Internet-based services, and technology-based companies.

Weber is an inventor with 21 issued US patents and a number of foreign counterparts. Several applications are currently pending in the US and in other jurisdictions.

Weber is a member of the MIT Enterprise Forum. He has also been a member of the IEEE Boston Entrepreneurs' Network and served on its Advisory Board 2002-2007 and as Vice Chairman, Programs, 2005-2007.

Bob Weber’s Specialties:

Patent Kinetics, LLC evaluates US patent portfolios for possible assertion against those who might be practicing these inventions without an appropriate license. We help owners of high quality portfolios evaluate strategies for obtaining a return on their significant investments of time and money in their IP. Patent Kinetics typically works on a contingency fee basis to evaluate, assert, and/or license strong patent portfolios.

Bob Weber’s Education

The University of Connecticut

Ph.D. , Sociology , 1969 — 1978

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Bob Weber’s Interests:

Patent assertion and licensing Intellectual Property generally, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Digital Rights Management and related technologies, including copy protection, conditional access, and digital watermarking and fingerprinting,